Sessions

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Youth Cooperatives with the Toxic Soil Busters Asa Needle, Jonathan Rodrigues, Haley Berube, Vaughn Collymore Wait! Youth running coops? In this workshop, we will present on youth cooperatives such as Toxic Soil Busters, Youth in Charge, and Future Focus Media: their strengths, as well as the challenges...	Do It Yourself
Worker Cooperative Conversions David Ritchie, John Abrams, Rebekah Hanlon Panelists are veterans and newbies from cooperatives that were converted from conventional businesses to worker cooperatives will talk about the issues they faced, how they went about making the...	Growing Our Movement
What Next? Thinking about retirement planning (share valuation, equity redemption, asset development) Margaret Lund Many members are attracted to worker cooperatives simply for the unique experience of daily sharing with colleagues in the ownership and direction of an exciting enterprise. Eventually, however,...	Sustaining Your Cooperative
We Bought Our Building Without the Banks John Langley This workshop focuses on creative fundraising and financing strategies when getting money from banks and other institutional lenders isn't an option. We'll talk specifically about our successful...	Do It Yourself
USFWC Member Meeting USFWC Admin	Growing Our Movement
The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Worker Co-ops Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Michael Johnson, Len Krimerman This workshop is a dialogue on what some call the “nonprofit industrial complex.” Together we will discuss and address questions such as: Is there a non-profit industrial complex? What does that...	Growing Our Movement
The Coop Index Alison Booth, Jim Johnson This workshop introduces a powerful new tool to assess your coop’s strengths and weaknesses, and create systems that help you function better as a group, as a business, as a cooperative. The Coop...	Sustaining Your Cooperative
Tech Tools for Sharing Joe Marraffino, Jason Want, Brendan Martin, Brian Van Slyke This workshop looks at four tools created by the cooperative community to effectively share information both within a cooperative, and on a movement-wide basis. We’ll look at: -C4...	Do It Yourself
Tech Co-ops: A Better Way of Making a Living Raeanne Young, Sabiha Basrai, Drew Stephan Cooperative business models are well suited for creative professionals who want to have it all: the stability and support of joining a professional firm and the creative autonomy of working...	Bonus!
Structuring Worker Cooperatives (and the Cooperative Movement) for Growth Tim Huet Not all cooperatives or would-be cooperative founders are interested in growth (at least in terms of substantial job growth). But for those interested in creating cooperatives that generate large...	Growing Our Movement
Resolution Not Ruins: Conflict Resolution in Your Coop Kiran Nigam, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs As in all communities, conflict in democratically run enterprises is unavoidable. It is also uncomfortable. In working through it the question shouldn’t be, “How do we prevent conflict?” but...	Worker Cooperatives Are...People!
Regional Experiments in Principle 6 Webster Walker, Bob Noble, Peter Brown, Andi Shively, Adam Trott How can we create and sustain thriving regional cooperative economies? From Puget Sound to the Pioneer Valley, cooperative movement builders are starting by working together locally across coop...	Cooperative Connections
Opening reception after Congressman Chaka Fattah
Not the IRS! Anti-Oppression Audits Kiran Nigam, Jenna Peters-Golden The work of centralizing anti oppression values in your co-op is a many layered thing. Assessing your co-op’s policies, goals, development and practices as they relate to power and privilege can...	Worker Cooperatives Are...People!
Movie Night: Worker Coop Shorts Film Festival
Immigrant-Led Worker Cooperatives, part 2 Elizabeth Arredondo, Luz Maria Arias, Carlos Gaspar, Carolina Herrera A historic series of presentations by and dialogue among worker-owners from four immigrant-led cooperatives from across the US: Opportunity Threads, a cut-and-sew cooperative in North Carolina;...	Do It Yourself
Immigrant-Led Worker Cooperatives, part 1 Carlos Perez de Alejo, Minsun Ji, David Smathers Moore A “lay-of-the-land” overview of different approaches being pursued, including different ways of organizing and developing the capacities needed to get a cooperative off the ground, different...	Do It Yourself
How To Read a Balance Sheet: Worker Cooperative Financial Reporting Dirk Prindle The Balance Sheet holds the key to understanding your cooperative’s financial health, and it is a valuable tool for everything from cash management to strategizing about growth to deciding how...	Basics
Got Schwag? Branding Visuals for Worker Coops Sabiha Basrai Does your co-op know how to schwag? Ok, we're really talking about all the promotional materials that your co-op puts out to the world. We'll talk about how to develop a consistent brand and...	Do It Yourself
Fully Human Resources: A Human-Centered Approach to HR Esteban Kelly, Tyrone Boucher, Jenny Glazer Inclusive, encouraging, and worker-centered policies should be the backbone of any cooperative personnel framework. In democratic workplaces, “Human Resources” are centered around the...	Worker Cooperatives Are...People!

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